Season 12

Oct. 31, 2025

Episode 562 - Phinance, Phans & Phun: The Beancounter Behind the Bananas: Interview with Tim Naddy

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Tim Naddy — CPA, educator, entrepreneur, author-in-the-making — who serves as Vice President of Finance for the Savannah Bananas, a team that's rewriting the rulebook on sports entertainm...
Oct. 24, 2025

Episode 561 - What’s Changing in Pricing? An Update for Professionals

In this episode, we return to the pricing front lines. We’ll bring you up to speed on how pricing models are evolving in the experience, knowledge-work, and subscription zones — what’s working, what’s failing, and what you sh...
Oct. 17, 2025

Episode 560 - Kamayan - Interview with Christian Origenes

In this episode, Ron and Ed talk with filmmaker Christian Origenes , director of Kamayan — a documentary exploring the heart of Filipino identity through its cuisine. Origenes traces how communal meals, shared by hand on bana...
Oct. 10, 2025

Episode 559 - Against Empathy

In this episode of The Soul of Enterprise , Ron and Ed take on one of the most cherished virtues of our age — empathy — and ask whether it really belongs at the heart of moral or political reasoning. Drawing on Kevin D. Willi...
Oct. 3, 2025

Episode 558 - Economic and Relativity - Second Interview with Steven Landsburg

This week on The Soul of Enterprise , Ron and Ed sit down with economist and author Steven Landsburg for a wide-ranging conversation that spans the frontiers of economics and physics. Known for his provocative insights and cl...
Sept. 26, 2025

Episode 557 - An AI Interview with Karl Marx

What happens when 19th-century ideology meets 21st-century technology? In this provocative and irreverent episode, Ed and Ron “sit down” with none other than Karl Marx—resurrected through the magic of AI voice synthesis and l...
Sept. 19, 2025

Episode 556 - Interview with a Dragonslayer - Fourth Conversation with Dan Morris

In this episode, Ron and Ed sit down with Dan Morris, Chief Dragon Slayer at Morris and D’Angelo, for his fourth appearance on The Soul of Enterprise. Dan shares captivating stories from his decades-long career in internation...
Sept. 12, 2025

Episode 555 - On Trump's AI Action Plan: Second interview with Adam Thierer

In this episode, we sit down with Adam Thierer, Resident Senior Fellow at the R Street Institute, to unpack his recent analysis— AI Policy in Congress Mid‑2025: Where Are We Headed Next? We explore shifting congressional prio...
Sept. 5, 2025

Episode 554 - Kimberlee Josephson (Part VI): Superman, Snacks & the Invisible Order

Ron and Ed are thrilled to welcome back Kimberlee Josephson for the sixth time, diving into her fascinating latest piece: “ Superman, Sneaking Snacks into Movies, and the Mystery of Social Order ” . In it, Kimberlee reflects ...
Aug. 29, 2025

Episode 553 - The Soul of Strategy: From Answers to Imagination

We throw the word strategy around so much that it risks becoming meaningless. Is it a plan? A budget? A list of goals? In this episode of The Soul of Enterprise , Ron and Ed revisit the meaning of strategy through the lens of...
Aug. 22, 2025

Episode 552 - Gross Output (GO) vs. Gross Domestic Product (GDP): The Top Line of the Economy

For years, GDP has been treated as the ultimate scorecard of economic performance. But GDP only measures final goods and services. It’s like judging a business by gross margin while ignoring sales. Economist Mark Skousen’s in...